Zelenskyy to discuss return of Oschadbank funds with Hungary's Magyar

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to discuss with Péter Magyar, leader of the Tisza party which won the elections in Hungary, the return of Oschadbank funds that he says were taken by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Source: Zelenskyy in an interview aired on the joint 24/7 TV newscast on the evening of 19 April

Quote: "We would like to get the money back. They took some of our funds there…

We will be speaking with Magyar. I believe they should return it. Orbán simply took this money."

Details: Zelenskyy described the Tisza party's election victory as a window of opportunity for Ukraine, Hungary and the EU.

Background:

• In early March, the National Bank of Ukraine reported that Hungarian authorities had detained Ukrainian cash-in-transit guards and seized a large amount of currency.
• The valuables in the seized vehicles amounted to US$40 million, €35 million and 9 kilograms of gold.
• Hungary later released the cash-in-transit workers and passed legislation providing for the confiscation of the currency and valuables from Oschadbank's cash-in-transit vehicles.
• A senior member of Orbán's government later effectively acknowledged that the incident involving the cash-in-transit guards was a response to Ukraine's "blocking" of the Druzhba oil pipeline.

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